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lntrd tatraatwt @Wine CHAUNCEY JEROME, OF N EWl HAVEN, CONNECTICUT, ASSIGNOR BY MESNE ASSIGN- MENTS TO SAMUEL B. JEROME, ADMINISTRATOR OF ESTATE OF CHAUNCEY JE-V ROME, DECEASED; AND SAMUEL B. JEROME, ASSIGNOR TO RICHARD A. DOUGLASS, 0F PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA. y

rLam Patent No. 100,296, coed 'Malek 1,1870.

IMPRO'VED CIG-AR-BOX.

The Schedule referred to in theseLetters Patent and making part o: the same To all whom ttmay concern:

Be it known that I, CHAUNCEY JEROME', ofA New Haven, in the county of New Haven, and State oi' Connecticut, have invented a new and useful Improvement in the Construction of Cigar-Boxes; and I do hereby declare that the following is a full, clear, and exact description ot' the same, reference being had to the accompanying'drawings making a p'art of the speciiication,.in which- Figure 1 is a transverse section of my invention, taken in the line x x iig. 2.

Figure 2 is a perspective view of the same.

Similar letters of reference indicate corresponding parts in the two figures.

This invention consists in constructing a cigar-box with two veneered surfaces, the space between being filled with any common wood.

The object ofthe invention is'to obtain a cigar-box which will have an exterior and interior surface of cedar, and possess all the advantages of the ordinary cigar-boxes, and be capable of being manufactured at a much less expense. A

Cedar, Spanish cedar as it iS commonly termed, is preferred to any other for constructing cigar-boxes. This wood imparts a peculiar fla-vor to the cigars, and it is employed for home-made, as well as imported boxes.- Itis comparatively expensive, butas the trade demand it, it is necessarily employed in all cases, except i'or a very inferior article of cigars.

"lo enable those skilled iu the art to fully understand and construct my invention, I will proceed to describe it. l

The box I construct in the usual form, and of slabs A formed of three parts, a a b. The parts a a form the two outer .surfaces of the slabs, and are thin veneers cut in the ordinary way.

Th'e central part b is considerably thicker than the .parts a a, so as to give the slabs the requisite thickness to render the box strong and durable, andcapable of holding the nails by which the parts ofthe-box are held together. The veneers a a are secured by glue to the central part b.

The veneers a a will imparta flavor to the cigars as usual, while the central part b will give great strength to the box, as the slabs will be much thicker than those which are entirely of cedar. These entire cedar slabsv are cnt as thin as they can be, and possess suiicient thickness to hold a nail, and' they are veryl lia-ble to spread apart. The paper which is pasted over the corners or angles of the box is depended uponas much as the nails to hold the ,boxl together'.

By my invention, the slabs m'ay be made quite thick at a small expense, for the cedar veneers a a being quite thin, a small amount of timber will goa great terior and interior veneered surface ma of Spanish cedar, with an ordinary common filling or central part b of light wood between, vto which the veneers are' attached, as herein set forth.

CHAUNCEY JEROME. [1.. s.]

Witnesses WM. A. REYNOLDS, WM. O. Goonmcn. 

